Archive for 'Letters'
Letters to WestView November 2009
Persistence Key To Political Action
For several months, WestView has been receiving and selectively printing an e-mail exchange between retired math professor Ken Korbin and Kate Seely Kirk in New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s office. Ken lives over a traffic light on Charles St. and Greenwich Ave. and is subject to the loud speaker [...]
Letters to WestView July 2009
Commentary
Obviously Aubrey Lees does not get it (regarding “Village Politics: Phase One Completed. Park Critics Silenced!” in WestView’s JUNE 2009 issue). That is because she is a politician of a certain ilk - sort of like a Giuliani-bully.
Of course the park is beautiful. Even the opponents of the design knew it would be beautiful. But [...]
Letters to WestView June 2009
Letters to WestView
Dear George Capsis,
I enjoyed reading your article in the WestView of May 2009. I’ve been parking a car at Pier 40 for over 20 years and am very distressed at the course events have taken in these last 4 to 5 years.
In 2004 I wrote to the management of Pier 40 - Standard [...]
Letters to WestView May 2009
Letters to WestView
Dear Editor,
Your architectural review with the giveaway headline “166 Perry: Total Design Living” (April 2009) should have been labeled “advertising.” It is disheartening to find such kowtowing to developers in a newspaper purporting to serve the interests of the community. From beginning to end, the “review” reads like ad copy. The first words [...]
Letters to WestView April 2009
Dear Editor,
Several years ago I stopped buying the New York Times on a daily basis. I stopped not because it no longer provided excellent quality news and information but because it was nearly always filled with depressing articles. (Could this have been a result of the Bush Administration?) Recently, I’ve stopped watching CNN and MSNBC [...]
Letters to WestView - Darren Sukenik
Make the Neighborhood Affordable for Everyone
In her February State of the City address, Chris Quinn recommended the purchase of developer apartments, now languishing, and making them available to middle class families at below market prices.
Real-estate executive, Darren Sukenik comments on the Quinn proposal and the loss of the “old” Village.
Dear Editor,
I am truly stumped as [...]
Letters to WestView - Sally Stone
Dear Editor,
I guess I am a bit older than Christian Kellberg, the author of the article about the old Balducci’s, since he does not seem to know of the earlier location. It was on the south side of Greenwich Avenue at the corner of 6th Avenue and was purely a greengrocery. Mom and Pop worked [...]
Letters to WestView - Andrew Berman
Dear Editor,
As you may be aware, the owner of 139-145 Charles Street at the corner of Charles and Washington Streets has recently begun to erect framing for a billboard next to his property (see www.gvshp.org/139CharlesStBB.htm). He has no permits for a billboard, and given that the site is located in the extension of the [...]
Letters to WestView February 2009
Letter from the Publisher
Reading a how-to-do-it book after you’ve already done it.
My son, Doric, gave me the most enjoyable Christmas book I have ever received.
It’s on how to publish your own newspaper. It was written by a North Carolina professor who started a mini publishing empire in his bedroom and 4 years later was making [...]
Letters to WestView January 2009
Dear Editor,
I have been a West Village resident for almost 30 years. I read your article “Bikers Win…” (Dec. 2008) and have some comments. There is a sincere effort to make the City more bicycle friendly, but I don’t feel painting lines is the answer. We need dedicated barrier-enforced lanes to be safe and encourage [...]
Letters to WestView January 2009
Dear Editor,
I had been taking in the bad economic news with an attitude of jaunty, wise-cracking, hard-boiled realism mixed with a wary eye towards its impact on my own cost of living. But I was really set back on my heels by the Bernie Madoff story. That was the anvil that finally broke the back [...]
Letters to WestView January 2009
Dear Editor,
Re: “Bikers Win…” (Dec. 2008) by George Capsis
Let me see…you keep a car in the City and a place in Bridgehampton, and you’re whining in the paper about a bike lane? So sorry you’ve had to tighten your belt so much.
May the traffic cops always find you.
– Steve Reynolds
Letters to WestView December 2008
Not everybody rides a bike - a reader comments on a new Grand Street bike lane, and what it implies about City politics.
Dear Editor,
Re: Imperial Mayorality
Congestion came early to the City this year, many months before the traditional cold and flu season. It came as the result of a full-speed-ahead assault on drivability on major [...]
Letters to WestView December 2008
Dear Editor,
“Change” is the political mantra that defined Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. One could also posit that a change is needed in contemporary drama that will reflect the current unraveling of the American Dream and the desperate plight of Americans who have lost their jobs in our crumbling economy.
Hamlet’s speech to the strolling players included [...]
Letters to WestView November 2008
Dear Editor,
Re: “We Ask Who is to Blame? What to Do Next?” by Henry Stern (October)
From what I know of you, I always expect provocative articles, which I read avidly. However, this article puzzles me. I’m quite certain that you know that the questions asked are really not answerable because they are all presented with [...]
Letters to WestView November 2008
Letter from the Publisher
Dear Readers,
When the New York Times asks your opinion in an e-mail survey you sort of feel flattered to give it and you also get the feeling that if they ask they are in trouble.
As the publisher of WestView, a feisty, opinionated local paper courting readers in the planetary epicenter of liberal [...]
Letters to WestView November 2008
Bailout Bill Pushed Using Fear Tactics
Dear Editor,
I have watched for the past few days as George W. Bush has made public the economic crisis facing this nation. His Treasury Secretary took the liberty of further emphasizing that immediate action must be taken to allow billions of taxpayer dollars into the system to boost the flow [...]
Letters to WestView November 2008
No Third Term for Bloomberg
Dear Editor,
The word on the street and within the City Council Of New York, is that Michael Bloomberg, the current mayor serving his second and final term, may want to have the rules changed to accommodate him for a third term.
I say NO NO NO!
The rules clearly state that no sitting [...]
Letters to WestView November 2008
Note from the Publisher:
I first became aware of Peggy Lewis at the famous mass turn out in May when 1,500 West Villagers came to PS 41 to say no to developers. Peggy got up with a bunch of her biz kids in costume masks (she teaches acting to them) and declared that she was one [...]
Letters to WestView November 2008
Dear Editor,
I’ve always loved the West Village. The streets are beautiful and unique. There are wonderful cafes, bars and restaurants on every block. Now that I have children, I still love the West Village, but not for the same reasons. Now I love it because of our wonderful community. Thanks to WestView, I’m able to [...]
